FREE SPACE DETECTION BY CAMERA ON REAL WORLD AREAS NEAR PARIS WITH POOR QUALITY OF BITUMEN ON THE ROAD : CRACKS, PATCHES, ...
Some companies try to detect freespace with a regular camera, without IR (SWIR etc …), without fusion with LIDAR, just because it allows low cost applications especially for aftermarket. Here is an example of the NEXYAD module RoadNex. One can see that there are a lot of cracks, patches (highlights and dark zones), and that RoadNex still detects free space in front of the car. Especially useful in... [Lire la suite]

SafetyNex selected by the French Road Safety Ministry
In the category "promotion of responsible behaviours" innovations.
SafetyNex alerts driver when risk is becoming too high, letting time to slightly slow down and avoid accident.
Read more : (French spoken, use Google to translate the page) :
https://entreprisesengagees64.info/decouvrez-les-14-nommes-pour-la-3eme-edition-du-prix-innovation-securite-routiere-2019-quelques-belles-idees-sont-en-route/

NEW LEAD TO TRANSFORM AUTONOMOUS DRIVING LEVEL 3 TO LEVEL 5 AUTONOMY
Car manufacturers like WAYMO and TESLA has been developing high value Autonomous (AD) systems that are said to be level 3.
AD systems are complex architectures in a feedforward chain : . perception. Sensor fusion. Situation understanding and holding. Decision making. Actuators
Such a feedforward chain is validated on crossings of use cases recorded in huge databases.The problem is that it is not possible to validate a feedforward chain on a database and know... [Lire la suite]

Computing onboard, in real time, the risk that the driver is currently taking
There is a software component called SafetyNex that can compute onboard (and not on the cloud), in real time (and not on a back office server one week after), at each moment (i.e. 20 times per second), the risk that driver is currently taking.
This driving risk is computed with anticipation.
The software component is called SafetyNex, proposed by the company NEXYAD (We Save Lives).
If driver is a human being, it has been shown that alerting driver a few... [Lire la suite]

NEXYAD CONFERENCE AT CES 2019 FOR XAVIER DALLOZ THINK TANK
NEXYAD was invited to talk at the Xavier DALLOZ think tank conference at CES 2019.
It was about Artificial Intelligence for mobility.
Very interesting discussions and a valuable overview of what's goind on at CES.
Read more : https://nexyad.net/Automotive-Transportation/?page_id=5096

NEXYAD excutive pitch : Driving risk computing and artificial perception for intelligent véhicule
Here is th executive pitch of NEXYAD : Artificial Intelligence Algorithms, markets, business model, mission.
(we save lives)
NEXYAD provides the only software module in the world that compute at each moment, and with anticipation, the risk that the driver is taking. Driver may be human or not.
. human driver : SafetyNex is used to alert driver in real time (Vocal Driving Assistant), letting time to slow down before dangerous... [Lire la suite]

NEXYAD presenting a disruptive approach of real time driving risk assessment for car insurance, fleets, ADAS, autonomous driving
The CEO of NEXYAD was a speaker in the car electronics congress CESA Automotive (5th and 5th of December 2018, in Versailles, France).
The presentation was about the major difference between ADAS and Autonomous Driving mindsets, even if the skills (sensors, fusion, ...) are quite the same.
In particular, was presented the graph tree of driving situations :
Then it was explained that... [Lire la suite]

Free Space detection in real time on standard architectures such as smartphones
Here is the demo of RoadNex free space detection on a regular smartphone. Free space is detected in real time.
On this version, "distant sidewalks" are integrated into free space (it is an option) because sidewalks without pedestrians may be a option to avoid accident if it is not possible to brake as short as need and is the street is full of users.
No need for a NVIDIA heavy computing architecture, no need for a MOBILEYE chip, etc ... Only the... [Lire la suite]

NEXYAD FREE SPACE DETECTION (RoadNex) : IN REAL TIME ON A REGULAR COMPUTER
NEXYAD proposes RoadNex that detects borders of the road with or without markings (important in cities and countryside), that also detects free space. All RoadNex features run in real time on a standard computer (even on a smartphone).
Here is free space detection on a dirty road (real conditions ...)
To read and watch more : https://nexyad.net/Automotive-Transportation/NEXYAD_presentation.pdf

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